The base salary for this position is dependent upon experience and location. LOCATION: Vancouver, WA SALARY RANGE: $40.29 to $50.36 Main Duties, Functional Relationships and Workplace Setting: The Operator in Training I (OIT I) is responsible for the safe and reliable remote operation and dispatch of Avangrid's diverse U.S. renewables and thermal generation fleet and substations. The OIT I interfaces with plant personnel, asset management, real time trading & forecasting, transmission operators, ISO's/BA's, and other entities to maintain optimal Avangrid resource availability and system reliability, and in a manner consistent with its commercial obligations and economic considerations. The integral OIT I role is located primarily out of Avangrid National Control Center's Vancouver, Washington facility, and compliments the 24x7 continuous staffing presence there. Roles and Responsibilities: • Maintains constant situational awareness of plant performance and impactful meteorology, wind speed, equipment status, operating constraints, and outage factors. • Optimally dispatches generation resources in consideration of commercial and economic factors. • Communicates with and responds to directives from balancing authorities and transmission operators. • Troubleshoots turbine and substation alarms, taking corrective actions and enlisting diagnostic control systems and engineering support as needed. • Interprets turbine and substation SCADA, and system-grid conditions to maintain stable and optimal plant performance and availability. • Monitors plant automatic generation control and SCADA response to instantaneous dispatch signals from the ISO/RTO regions that Avangrid's resources operate in. • Coordinates via multiple scheduling application systems, with plant managers, and other internal and external parties to start and return generation units with planned and unplanned outages. • Monitors and notifies site personnel of potentially dangerous site conditions. • Monitors and ensures reliable and continuous plant and substation telemetry. Troubleshoots system communication issues and takes immediate corrective action to resolve. • Notifies management and other critical parties of adverse operating conditions and emergency events. • Performs safe substation switching using established procedures in coordination with field personnel. • Operates reactive equipment in response to voltage stability needs and directives, and monitors resources for voltage schedule compliance. • Coordinates with plant managers regarding special operating conditions and requirements. • Promptly identifies substation alarms and plant trip events and notifies and follows up with technical support personnel to resolve and restore affected resources. • Performs periodic and real time system reporting. • Understands and adheres to applicable NERC and RTO reliability standards. • Dispatches field services and emergency service personnel as appropriate. • Adheres to internal controls and operating procedures. • Adheres to Avangrid's cyber and security protocol. Job Requirements: *If not already certified, the hired candidate must study for and pass the PJM Generation Dispatcher exam certification within 6 months of hire and the NERC Reliability Coordinator exam certification within 9 months of hire. Earning and maintaining these certifications within the allotted times is a condition of ongoing employment. Education, Experience and Work Environment: 2+ years in real time/power plant/transmission operations or electrical, engineering roles. Vocational experience wit